From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 19 17:16:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from afs.itc.keio.ac.jp (afs.itc.keio.ac.jp [131.113.212.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F8E537B4D7 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:16:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 5718 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2000 00:16:14 -0000 Received: from dhcp03.itc.keio.ac.jp (HELO localhost.FromTo.Cc) (131.113.212.123) by afs.itc.keio.ac.jp with SMTP; 20 Oct 2000 00:16:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:16:14 +0900 Message-ID: <86bswgpdtd.wl@ringo.FromTo.Cc> From: Tatsumi Hosokawa To: motoyuki@bsdclub.org Cc: keichii@peorth.iteration.net, i18n@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, hosokawa@sm.rim.or.jp Subject: Re: I18N Progress, Plans, and Proposals In-Reply-To: In your message of "Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:47:45 -0700" <200010191747.e9JHljY09298@misato.mk.bsdclub.org> References: <20001019033252.A31416@peorth.iteration.net> <200010191747.e9JHljY09298@misato.mk.bsdclub.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/1.1.0 (Overjoyed) SEMI/1.13.7 (Awazu) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 9) (Canyonlands) (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.7 - "Awazu") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:47:45 -0700, Motoyuki Konno wrote: > > "Michael C . Wu" wrote: > > 1. The future of sysinstall (or whatever should replace it) > > The future installer/management utility should be > > able to handle arbitrary character sets. > > In other words, it should be able to display Chinese/Japanese/etc. > > with user selection. To be discussed. > > There is a difficulty in multilingual install floppy: size limitation > that comes from floppy disk size (1.44M). The font file of Chinese, > Japanese, Korean are very big. But 4.1.1 multilingual boot.flp (htpp://people.FreeBSD.org/~hosokawa/boot-ja/) shrinks font files into 20-30KB for each language (Japanese and Korean). In fact, the size of help files and message catalog is fatal in size limitation rather than the font size. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message